Setting up a print server

To set up a print server to process RLP requests, do the following:

• Ensure that the RLP daemon lpd is running. You can do this by entering the command ps -fe and verifying that the daemon appears in the listing.

• Ensure that that all printers attached to the print server are working properly as local printers. See the documentation that accompanies the operating system running on the print server for information on how to set up local printer services.

• List all of the clients that are to have access to the print server in either the /etc/hosts.equiv or the /etc/hosts.lpd file using your favorite text editor.
  
  Listing a client in the latter file is more secure, in that only remote printer access is granted to the specified client. See the manual page that describes /etc/hosts.equiv for information on the kind of access made available to hosts listed in that file.

• Execute rlpconf to create the /etc/printcap file and the spool directories for printers attached to the print server.

   		Remote Printing Configuration
   

   Enter information for remote printers or local printers accepting
   print jobs.
   

   Please enter the printer name (q to quit): sunlaser
   

   Is sunlaser a remote printer or a local printer (r/l)? l
   

   Please enter the name of the device for sunlaser: /dev/laser
   

   	Printer sunlaser uses device /dev/laser
   

   Is this correct? (y/n) y
   

   Putting sunlaser in printer description file and creating spool
   directory...done

Once you indicate that the device filename is correct, the rlpconf command checks that the printer is not already listed in /etc/printcap. If it is, a message to that effect is displayed. Otherwise, the printer information is added to the /etc/printcap file and the spool directory for the printer, /usr/spool/lpd/sunlaser, is created.

Once processing is complete for one printer, you are prompted to set up another printer. When you are done, enter q to exit rlpconf and return to the shell prompt.

See also:

• ``The client/server model''

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